American Masters"Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women"
The author, who was raised among reformers, Transcendentalists and skeptics, is best known for her gentle novels of childhood and coming-of-age stories. Writer-producer Harriet Reisen digs deeply to reveal the complex woman who also wrote commercially successful sensational potboilers that delve into the darker side of human nature. Reisen's script relies on dialogue written by Alcott herself or by other people in her life with clips from interviews to carry the commentary and narrative links.G

8:30 pm

Storied Life of Millie Benson
Author, reporter and adventurer Mildred Wirt Benson, who died in 2002 at the age of 96, is better known as Carolyn Keene, the ghostwriter of the first 23 Nancy Drew mysteriesG

9:00 pm

Moyers & Company"Moving Beyond War"
Nine years after Baghdad erupted in "shock and awe," we're once again hearing in America the drumbeat for war in the Middle East. Now, the bull's-eye is on Iran. But what we need more than a simple change of target is a complete change in perspective, says Andrew Bacevich, a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran-turned-scholar who's become one of the most perceptive observers of America's changing role in the world. D